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Department of Health and Social Care: Public Expenditure
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the increase in funding for his Department announced at the Autumn Budget 2024 will be spent on (a) National Insurance contribution increases, (b) pay increases, and
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the increase in funding for his Department announced at the Autumn Budget 2024 will be spent on (a) National Insurance contribution increases, (b) pay increases, and
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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18 Dec 2024
Answer published
We have taken necessary decisions to fix the foundations in the public finances at the Autumn Budget, and this enabled the Spending Review settlement of a £22.6 billion increase in resource spending for the Department, from 2023/24 outturn to 2025/26.Nati...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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